“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

with your existence,

 

The mood was strange.

 

couldn’t take their eyes off one another

 

one of them would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on

 

were almost chest to chest

 

it must be my appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied with,

 

There are a hell of a lot more attractive

 

doing here, then? Hurry up and go

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

each other, right?” The man came closer, as if there was still space left between them. “Visit her

 

participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close to

 

twice her size, but he went

 

wonder where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of the man

 

and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the

 

romantic, yet macabre. Sad and hopeless

 

woman’s eyes turned to

 

a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from

 

somehow, that woman smiled

 

smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s you…

 

Then, that man is…

 

if someone had turned me to stone.

 

moonlight flickered and waned, and the room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows in this empty and

 

***

 

had me twitching, trying to

 

that came to me was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to the bed I was

 

I? Who got me here? What happened at

 

the broken fragments of my memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my

 

I wanted to cry.

 

next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there

 

eyes leaving no part

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

through his bangs, the movement

 

whisper in the soft breeze. “Why didn’t you tell

 

of anything. It felt like

 

life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like

 

my

 

answered him with was low and

 

“What…?”

 

time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone

 

very well, something that had

 

enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family name

 

always been

 

“Always.”

 

into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the people around you blind

 

where I’m hated without

 

his eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the bone of his cheek,

 

Izek still kept on gazing at me with that same

 

arm was free, he could embrace me fully,

 

torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder

 

didn’t understand why my

 

but I didn’t remember it at

 

Because it’s not your fault. It’s not always

 

arrogant man, I

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